Model Method - The teaching strategy developed in Singapore for diagramming
arithmetic word problems. The Model Method is also known as model drawing or bar modeling
in the United States. The method consists of first classifying a word problem according to type,
then teaching students to draw various configurations of rectangles, or bar models, that form
schematic representations of quantities and relationships among quantities in the word problem
(see Appendix A for a closer look at problem solving with the Model Method).